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Robert Vaughn, an Oscar-nominated actor and veteran of the United States Army, has died on this Veteran’s Day from \u00a0acute leukemia in a hospital on the East Coast. He was 83.<\/p>\nRobert Vaughn, an Oscar-nominated actor and veteran of the United States Army, has died on this Veteran’s Day from \u00a0acute leukemia in a hospital on the East Coast. He was 83.<\/p>\n
Born in New York City, Vaughn got his start on television in the mid-1950s making guest appearances on shows such as Father Knows Best<\/strong>, Gunsmoke <\/strong>and Dragnet<\/strong>. His work in television would eventually lead to his most famous role–that of agent Napoleon Solo in The Man From U.N.C.L.E.<\/strong><\/p>\n But Vaughn also had a successful film career, starting with uncredited cameos in 1956’s The Ten Commandments<\/strong>. He was originally cast as Steve Dallas in Sweet Smell of Success<\/strong>, but had to back out when the military drafted him. He was replaced in the role by Burt Lancaster.<\/p>\n His Oscar nomination came from his work as Chet, the drunken Korean war veteran friend of Paul Newman’s Tony in 1959’s The Young Philadelphians<\/strong>.<\/p>\n He had the unique honor of appearing in three film adaptations of Akira Kurosawa’s Seven Samurai<\/strong>. The most famous, of course, was\u00a0 1960’s The Magnificent Seven<\/strong>, where he played Lee. But he also played a similar role in Roger Corman’s 1980 sci-fi take on the story, Battle Beyond the Stars <\/strong>and a role in the 2012 soccer-themed British production called\u00a0The Magnificent Eleven<\/strong>.<\/p>\n Vaughn also appeared in films such as Bullitt, The Towering Inferno<\/strong>, S.O.B., <\/strong>and as the big bad guy in Superman III<\/strong>.\u00a0 His most recent screen role was in Gold Star<\/strong>, which received limited release last month.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"